Management
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Management includes interventions or practices adopted by land or facility managers that create changes in the landscape.
Land or facility managers can often adopt changes that are both beneficial to biodiversity and lower in cost. Biodiversity-friendly management actions include reducing pesticide and herbicide use, minimizing disturbance to sensitive wildlife areas, limiting the impacts of domestic cats and dogs, reducing light and noise pollution, and regulating human activity to reduce conflict with wildlife. Design actions such as fitting buildings with bird-safe windows and creating wildlife underpasses and overpasses are also essential to creating a more wildlife-friendly built environment.
Relevant Planning and Design Strategies
The Urban Biodiversity Framework identifies seven key landscape elements that, when integrated together into urban design and planning, have the greatest chance of supporting the greatest number of species. Each element is related to various strategies from the urban planning, site design, and detailed design chapters.
- All Strategies
- Urban Planning
- Site Design
- Detailed Design
Community-Driven Projects
Emphasizes equitable engagement that begins early in the process and provides benefits to the local residents
Streetscapes
Often the largest contiguous public spaces, streets can include vegetated sidewalks, street trees, and planters
Private Landscapes
Private residential yards, commercial property landscaping, and university and corporate campuses
Managed Access
Managing access to sensitive habitat, while maintaining views and awe-inspiring experiences
Wildlife Friendly Management
Practices that improve habitat quality by creating more naturalistic conditions
Limited Outdoor Lighting
Lighting practices to reduce negative impacts on humans and wildlife
